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December 17th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake's rebound is still a work in progress, but the lake's vital ecosystem is about to receive another boost. The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands and...

 

 

December 2nd 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah officials have already poured tens of millions of dollars toward Great Salt Lake preservation efforts in recent years, but the lake — which hit an all-time low in 2022 — is about...

 

 

November 22nd 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake is beginning to rebound again as it typically does at this point of the year, but levels dropped this year to a familiar point. Its southern arm has fallen to 4,...

 

 

October 3rd 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — A local church is joining efforts to get water to the Great Salt Lake. The First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City announced during its service on Sunday that it collected $35,000...

 

 

September 26th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

LAYTON — A lot has changed since Preston Cox and his wife, Melissa, founded Perennial Favorites in the early '90s, growing about 4,000 plants and 25 varieties from a wholesale nursery in the backyard...

 

 

September 19th 2024 by Logan Stefanich / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — It's no secret that the Great Salt Lake has been shrinking, dwindling to less than half its historical size, at one point, leaving about 800 square miles of barren lakebed. As more...

 

 

September 19th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Great Salt Lake has lost about 2 feet over the past few months, but it's about to get another boost from its southern neighbor. The Jordan Valley Water Conservancy announced M...

 

 

September 4th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

FARMINGTON — The Great Salt Lake is slated to receive a major boost from one of the key industries that rely on it for business. Utah land managers announced Tuesday that they have finalized a volun...

 

 

August 21st 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Projects to enhance or protect over 13,000 acres of Great Salt Lake wetlands are ongoing. While that work continues, members of the Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust and U...

 

 

July 29th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — While researchers continue to investigate the effects that dust from the Great Salt Lake might have on communities, a new study highlights another concern tied to low lake levels: gre...

 

 

July 26th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The difference between the Great Salt Lake's northern and southern arms continues to shrink, but the state office tasked with tracking the lake's recovery isn't concerned that the muc...

 

 

July 22nd 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake's demise over the past two decades has opened up new concerns over dust from its drying lakebed in recent years. However, the state office tasked with handling G...

 

 

July 17th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Scholars, politicians and environmental groups have all written and spoken about Great Salt Lake's importance, but Utah's capital city is now a step closer to using art to draw attent...

 

 

July 13th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SYRACUSE — Antelope Island remains one of Utah's most-visited state parks, and state officials are hoping to turn its popularity into a learning opportunity while adding more to the visitor experience...

 

 

June 27th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake typically rises in the winter and spring as more water flows into the lake from snowpack runoff and fewer upstream diversions; it then drops in the summer and earl...

 

 

June 6th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — It appears that the Great Salt Lake's levels have peaked for the year and, if that's the case, the lake's southern arm still reached its highest level in five years but will end up lo...

 

 

May 15th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Federal officials last week finalized a near-term plan that the seven Colorado River Basin states, including Utah, agreed to last year, which is expected to save at least 3 million ac...

 

 

May 9th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake's southern arm reached 4,195 feet elevation at times over the stormy weekend as it nears reaching that figure daily for the first time in five years. While that'...

 

 

May 9th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

GRANTSVILLE — Some of Utah's pelicans have found a new home at the Great Salt Lake, after many of the state's pods completely abandoned a long-standing nesting site on another part of the lake last ye...

 

 

May 2nd 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

MOAB — The sun begins to break from an overcast sky as Jennifer Jones describes how popular this section of the Colorado River has become in recent years, while standing near the banks of the snowmelt...

 

 

April 11th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake was already expected to receive a strong boost from this year's snowpack, but projected inflows are now expected to be a bit larger after a productive round of Mar...

 

 

March 28th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — A conservation group, acting on behalf of a coalition of scientists and other conservation groups, has filed a legal petition seeking to provide new protections for a shorebird specie...

 

 

March 21st 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake's water levels are already as high as they were last year, and those who oversee its future now expect that at least half of the lake will reach a key metric in th...

 

 

March 12th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Michael Werner was one of the many Utah residents who fled to the state's sprawling parks and public lands in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic led to shutdowns of gathering places all...

 

 

March 8th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Artist submissions are now open for a massive temporary public art project that seeks to bring attention to the recent issues of the Great Salt Lake, as project coordinators offer mor...

 

 

March 5th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake remains a key focus in Utah even if its water levels are in a much better position than when they hit an all-time low in 2022. A few bills specifically addressed...

 

 

February 15th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah land managers made emergency adjustments to a berm at the Great Salt Lake Causeway in 2022 and again in 2023, as the lake's record-low levels at the time started causing new chal...

 

 

February 14th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake received a significant boost from last year's record snowpack and an above-normal water year overall after it had fallen to a record low the year before, threateni...

 

 

February 7th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah water managers are set to begin releasing some water from Utah Lake as it reaches maximum capacity for the first time in over a decade, to avoid flooding but also provide the Gre...

 

 

February 1st 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah leaders have, in recent years, put millions of dollars into water leasing and agricultural water optimization programs to put more water into the struggling Great Salt Lake and a...

 

 

January 30th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers are now eying a study to see if adjustments to a second lake could help get water into the struggling Great Salt Lake. The Utah Senate approved a motion by Sen. Curti...

 

 

January 30th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Jim Bowcutt acknowledges that fallowing had always been considered the second F-letter word among farmers. Fallowing is a practice where farmers let their crops grow idly, thus avoi...

 

 

January 23rd 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Rep. Walt Brooks, R-St. George, says he was approached not too long ago by constituents with examples of peculiar legal cases emerging in other states and countries in recent years...

 

 

January 22nd 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake remains about 5½ to 8 feet below its minimum healthy level, depending on what side of it you're viewing; however, the person tasked with overseeing efforts to refi...

 

 

January 18th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Tim Davis believes Utah must do everything it possibly can to help the Great Salt Lake avoid a repeat of 2022. The lake plummeted to an all-time low amid ongoing extreme drought con...

 

 

January 18th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill that limits the use of "nonfunctional turf" for new government construction within the Great Salt Lake Basin passed through a Utah House natural resources committee Thursday, b...

 

 

January 11th 2024 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Joel Ferry reflected on a meaningful piece of advice his father gave him on the farm as he thought about the future of the struggling Great Salt Lake. "My dad would always tell me,...

 

 

December 21st 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Three Utah agencies are seeking to drop a lawsuit filed against them earlier this year over their management of the Great Salt Lake, arguing that the lawsuit "lacks subject matter jur...

 

 

December 21st 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Brian Steed remembers feeling unsure about the type of support Utah would provide the Great Salt Lake as it started flirting with record-low levels three years ago. He was still ser...

 

 

November 27th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has redesigned the landscape outside six of its Utah meetinghouses and is working to complete a seventh as it seeks to move forward wit...

 

 

November 27th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

PROVO — Utah water officials say a "suite of alternatives" will be needed to get water back to the struggling Great Salt Lake over the next few years. A pipeline channeling water from the Pacific Oc...

 

 

November 16th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake is in a much better spot than it was this time a year ago, as it reached its current all-time low. Its southern arm is back to just over 4,192 feet elevation aft...

 

 

November 9th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Members of the Utah Inland Port Authority's board of directors voted Monday to adopt a new policy that the agency says will help mitigate impacts to the state's vital wetlands as the...

 

 

November 8th 2023 by Yvette Cruz / KSL.com

The Utah Department of Agriculture & Food has awarded $65 million worth of grants to more than 300 projects throughout the state from 2020 through spring 2023 though the Agricultural Water Optimizatio...

 

 

November 6th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust announced Tuesday that it is sending a little more than $8.5 million in grant funds over the next two years to help fund projects that...

 

 

November 1st 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Art has the strength to ignite change and provide "optimism," Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall contends. Its power is why the city entered a nationwide competition seeking money...

 

 

October 4th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — A group of researchers and other prominent figures are seeking the help of thousands to solve the Great Salt Lake's woes once and for all, as the lake's water levels remain well below...

 

 

October 3rd 2023 by Sydnee Gonzalez / KSL.com

ANTELOPE ISLAND STATE PARK — The offerings of water were carried lovingly to the Great Salt Lake's shore in a mismatched array of bottles and jars. Although they were minuscule, even collectively, n...

 

 

October 3rd 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah water experts agree that Utahns must continue to make changes to how they consume water for communities to avoid consequences tied to the drying Great Salt Lake, which reached an...

 

 

September 28th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's capital city will always be connected to the Great Salt Lake through its name. And as the lake continues to struggle as a result of factors like drought and overconsumption,...

 

 

September 21st 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says he isn't surprised by a new report showing that mitigating dust from the Great Salt Lake would likely cost at least $1.5 billion in capital costs, but it hi...

 

 

September 20th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

CORINNE, Box Elder County — While the Great Salt Lake's blue southern arm remains much higher than it was this time last year, as it neared its new all-time record low set in early November, the same...

 

 

September 14th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — A pair of Utah divisions are close to unveiling new proposed rules that will regulate how new mineral extractors will return all the Great Salt Lake water they use in operations, impl...

 

 

September 14th 2023 by Robert Lawrence / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah became the first landlocked state to designate a state crustacean this year: the upside-down swimming, 22-legged, beady-eyed, magnificently funky little brine shrimp. Despite f...

 

 

August 17th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Deeda Seed and Jonny Vasic are leading a few dozen people through the hallways of the Utah Capitol, to deliver a pair of purple file folders to two Utah Inland Port Authority board di...

 

 

July 5th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake's water levels fell to an all-time record low for the second-consecutive time a year ago this week. One year later, the lake is starting to decline again — but i...

 

 

June 29th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Water supply in Utah's capital city is in a good place after a robust snowpack runoff that's all but over. As the irrigation season moves forward, Salt Lake City is turning to a new t...

 

 

June 29th 2023 by Gabrielle Shiozawa / KSL.com

FARMINGTON — A new mural being painted at the Eccles Wildlife Education Center in Farmington will represent the connection between three ecosystems sustaining migrating birds around the world. Franc...

 

 

June 15th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — McKenzie Skiles and other Utah researchers had already shed light on the relationship between dust and mountain snowmelt before a series of storms in early 2022 began to pelt the Wasa...

 

 

June 7th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Janice Gardner vividly remembers what it was like to venture out into the Great Salt Lake's vast wetlands as she and multiple groups of volunteers began counting shorebirds as part of...

 

 

May 25th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Brian Steed is still piecing together what his next job will entail, but he already has at least one goal in mind before becoming the state's first-ever Great Salt Lake commissioner...

 

 

May 18th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The future of the Great Salt Lake, and Utah's water security as a whole, is an issue that will require help from everyone living in the state. That's the message Utah House Speaker...

 

 

May 16th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is backing the state's former natural resources director to oversee functions related to the Great Salt Lake, pending final approval from the Utah Legislature...

 

 

May 5th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Kevin Perry isn't completely surprised by this year's record snowpack. Utah's snowpack, a measure of the water contained within the snow that falls in the mountains, reached 30 inch...

 

 

May 4th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

WEST JORDAN — This year's record snowpack has drastically reduced a drought that really began to impact Utah by the end of spring three years ago. The U.S. Drought Monitor currently lists about 20%...

 

 

April 25th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

DRAPER — Gene Shawcroft pulled a walkie-talkie up to his mouth and called for his employees to open a spill gate located near the Point of the Mountain. "We'll get it going as fast as we can," one o...

 

 

March 15th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has agreed to donate 5,700 water shares that will send more than 20,000 acre-feet of water to the struggling Great Salt Lake every year...

 

 

February 24th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — A commissioner could soon oversee the Great Salt Lake's water levels and Utah's efforts to get water back into the lake. HB491, sponsored by Rep. Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, was introdu...

 

 

February 9th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — A new report compiled by dozens of Utah researchers suggests that thinning overgrown forests within the Great Salt Lake basin won't significantly impact the lake's water levels as muc...

 

 

February 8th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — A team of Utah agencies and research institutions outlined six "major" recommendations for the state to consider when it comes to handling the drying Great Salt Lake. But failing to...

 

 

February 3rd 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a new executive order Friday, calling on the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands to raise the Great Salt Lake causeway berm by 5 feet, in an e...

 

 

February 1st 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Farmers, private landowners, mineral extraction specialists, hunters, anglers and water managers are among a group of people joining a trust to work on improving water flows to the Gr...

 

 

January 25th 2023 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Rep. Joel Briscoe, D-Salt Lake City, admits he has a sentimental reason behind his desire to save the Great Salt Lake. He has fond memories of traveling across the causeway toward t...

 

 

December 27th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill that sets up funding for studies of Great Basin saline lakes, such as the Great Salt Lake, cleared its last congressional hurdle Monday night and is now headed to President Joe...

 

 

December 19th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — There are plenty of reasons why Utah politicians are worried about the future of the Great Salt Lake, says Utah Rep. Blake Moore. "Everything related to the Great Salt Lake is cruci...

 

 

December 7th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year even if it's a shell of its old self. For instance, more than 115,000 people have already visited the Great...

 

 

November 18th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SOUTH JORDAN — The shrinking of the Great Salt Lake isn't only a Utah problem in Adam Putnam's eyes. It's an issue that may have serious implications across the U.S. and Western Hemisphere. While st...

 

 

November 17th 2022 by Sydnee Gonzalez / KSL.com

SYRACUSE — "How worried should we be?" "If people see that there's less water, why keep taking it?" "Will it get worse?" These were some of the questions high schoolers from Horizonte Instructio...

 

 

November 16th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

PROVO — John Wesley Powell offered a poignant message for Western U.S. communities when he was the featured speaker in a room full of developers and government leaders at a major irrigation conference...

 

 

October 24th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Craig Miller was recently rifling through some old Utah water documents destined to be destroyed when he came across a peculiar set of drawings of the Great Salt Lake sketched nearly...

 

 

September 23rd 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

OGDEN — Utah land managers said Thursday they've recently raised a berm underneath the railroad causeway that stretches across the Great Salt Lake in an effort to thwart rising salinity levels that th...

 

 

September 20th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Kevin Perry believes there are many "trigger points" that indicate when there is something wrong with the Great Salt Lake. For instance, anyone who has come to the lake for recreati...

 

 

September 20th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

FARMINGTON — The threat of the Great Salt Lake flooding is far from anyone's minds these days, especially after back-to-back years of record-setting low water levels. But it was a different story in...

 

 

September 12th 2022 by Mike Anderson / KSL.com

BEAR RIVER, Idaho — Current efforts to restore the site of the Bear River Massacre could benefit the whole Wasatch Front in a big way. Those efforts are sending water rights downstream, which will s...

 

 

September 1st 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — West Jordan Mayor Dirk Burton reflects back to his childhood as he stands a few dozen feet from the banks of the Jordan River. There's one memory from decades ago that pops into his...

 

 

August 18th 2022 by Jacob Klopfenstein / KSL.com

TIMPIE SPRINGS, Tooele County — Off of I-80 in Tooele County and past a mountain of salt from a nearby Cargill plant is Timpie Springs Waterfowl Management Area. It's here that Sageland Collaborativ...

 

 

July 27th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Given Utah's ongoing drought and the two-decade-long "megadrought," Utah Gov. Spencer Cox believes that Utahns must view water differently than ever before, cutting back on water wast...

 

 

July 20th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, introduced a bill in the U.S Senate last year that aimed to study saline lakes. The bill struggled to garner attention because...

 

 

July 6th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Jacob Brooks' latest painting is quite simple, so simple that his 3-year-old son can understand the message Brooks is trying to convey. It's a California gull with a sego lily on it...

 

 

June 16th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah legislators approved an unprecedented $40 million that will go solely toward enhancing the Great Salt Lake watershed during the state's legislative session earlier this year. T...

 

 

June 14th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Chances are you've seen signs to adopt a highway at least once in your life. The first "Adopt a Highway" sign dates back to 1985. A Texas transportation engineer thought of having v...

 

 

May 5th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Daron Duke is captivated by an image he's projected on a screen he's shared with curious archaeologists and prehistoric aficionados. It's a pair of pictures in northwest Utah: Blue...

 

 

May 3rd 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Cynthia Bee said it sometimes pays off to be "the lone weirdo" in a neighborhood who ditches the turf-based park strip, the patch of grass that typically exists between a street and s...

 

 

April 29th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

OGDEN — The dike system at Ogden Bay Waterfowl Management Area is vital for controlling the water that keeps it an important management area for the millions of birds that flock there — or other areas...

 

 

April 26th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Laura Vernon was preparing for a news interview last summer when her mother asked what the interview was about. Vernon, the Great Salt Lake coordinator for the Utah Division of Fore...

 

 

April 21st 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Motorized vehicles are banned from traveling on exposed lakebeds and navigable rivers in Utah, but a problem emerged in recent years with the way it's written in state law. It wasn'...

 

 

March 7th 2022 by Carter Williams / KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — In the days after arriving at what's now the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young and handful of other leaders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ventured toward the Grea...

 

 

 

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